So Yamamura

The story of beautiful Christian nun, Kyoko who is the object of affection for two very different men – one the happy-go-lucky yakuza ...

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds ...

The Futurians, time-travelers from the 23rd century, arrive in Japan to warn them of the nation’s destruction under Godzilla. They offer to ...

When a western Pennsylvania auto plant is acquired by a Japanese company, brokering auto worker Hunt Stevenson faces the tricky challenge of ...

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching…

In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. ...

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the ...

When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager–and then wrote a bestselling novel about it–reappears in her life, ...

A dying businessman intends to will his fortune to his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are unknown, so a bevy of lawyers and ...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in ...

Townsend Harris is sent by President Pierce to Japan to serve as the first U.S. Consul-General to that country. Harris discovers enormous ...

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

In eighth century China, the Emperor is grieving over the death of his wife. The Yang family wants to provide the Emperor with a consort so that ...

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their ...

Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage; all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

Setsuko is unhappily married to Mimura, an engineer with no job and a bad drinking habit. She had always been in love with Hiroshi but both of ...

A young girl is rigorously trained in the feminine arts so that she can become a geisha. As she struggles through life, she learns to live not ...